REVIEW NEKRARCHON "GEHINNAM"

Today I would like to present an album that, in my opinion, has unfortunately never received the attention it deserves. We are talking about the only album of the Greek black metal band Nekrarchon. Out of nowhere in 2014 the debut album "Gehinnam" was released by the German label FDA Records, which specializes in old-school death metal, and unusually there was no previous demo, no EP, no split release. Maybe part of the disregard was due to the label, don't get me wrong, FDA Records is an absolutely great label that has only good to top releases across the board, yet black metal in particular is not something you associate directly with this label. But be that as it may, the album named after a ravine near the biblical Judah, in which child sacrifices were made to the god Moloch, is a hidden gem to be discovered.

INTERVIEW ABSTRACTYSS

In the depths of the world wide web I came across the Bavarian death metal band Abstractyss, which weaves brutal and technical death metal with atmospheric elements into a coherent whole. Read here what the band from the city of three rivers Passau has to say.

Hello, please tell the readers of Systematic Desensitization Zine something about your band history. A short outline, who, when, where you formed. How exactly did you come up with the band name, which sounds quite unusual at first. An abstract hell so to speak?

REVIEW MEFISTO "PHOSPHORUS"

The legendary Mefisto, founded in Stockholm in 1984, are at the start with a new work. The new album is called "Phosphorus" and contains ten tracks with a running time of 50 minutes. It will be released on 13 July via GMR Music Group.

After disappearing into oblivion for almost three decades after their foundation, Mefisto have released three albums since then. Especially the last album of 2019, "Octagram" (Bathory had an "Octagon" album, Mefisto and Bathory are, so to speak, the primeval soup of Swedish extreme metal) was appealing, as it was a very dark and heavy work.

INTERVIEW AZARATH

Azarath from Poland have been playing great blackened death metal since 1998. Their latest, now seventh work "Saint Desecration", released by Agonia Records, combines the brutality of the earlier works with a subtle sinister atmosphere and technical finesse. A good reason for an interview, in which naturally the Polish conglomerate of church and government does not get off well. The questions were answered by Marcin "Skullripper", the question about Damnation, an awesome, unfortunately long since disbanded Polish death metal band, was answered by Bart.   

Hello, how are you? What is the situation regarding Corona in Poland ?

Hello. We have a completely incompetent government in Poland, no specific plans, just spontaneous actions. So besides Coronavirus we have a lot of bankruptcies, people are losing their jobs and are not provided with adequate assistance from the government. Restrictions are directed to everyone, but not to the church and priests. I am bored and pissed of by that, I don't even want to talk about that more.